From the course: How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools

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Using AI to improve your writing

Using AI to improve your writing

- I've mentioned before that AI generally produces adequacy, and it's your job to build on top of that to create something that's much better. But you can also use AI to build on your adequacy, or maybe on your inadequacies, to improve that, and then you can put a little bit more on top of that, so that's what this is about. To do this, I needed to get some really terrible copy for ChatGPT to try and improve. (chuckles) And the way I did that was by taking an article that I'd written and putting this prompt into ChatGPT. Now, this is not a prompt I recommend you use, but here. It says, "You are a dreadful writer. You write grammatically incorrect copy with bad punctuation and lots of spelling errors. I'm going to give you some text and you're going to rewrite it like a talentless fool." (Dave laughs) I then explained how it would do that, and it really worked. I've got to congratulate it. It really wrote some horrible copy. So, I'm going to use some of that horrible copy in just a…

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